Mexico

Pedro Reyes is an artist from Mexico who has created art in the past that’s made a statement about gun violence. A few years ago, he had an exhibit called “Guns for Shovels.” He conducted a voluntary gun drive whereby citizens turned-in their guns, he then melted them down and created shovels:

Because of the flood of people coming through the United States’ southern border, the U.S. Government sent extra personnel to the Texas Rio Grande Valley in late June to combat human smuggling operations on the border.

In a recent article for The Center for Investigative Reporting, Rachel Bale, delivers a horrifying report revealing that the US Border Patrol is detaining undocumented boarder crossers in “the freezers”.

Undocumented immigrants crossing the borders into the United States is certainly not new news. The rights and wrongs of that issue have been debated back and forth for a very long time; I am not interested in hashing that out, yet again. I do, however, want to spread awareness of the resulting injustice of detaining border crossers in “the freezers” and other horrors happening right now at our borders.

It is unthinkable that this is happening in 2013 in The United States of America:

When you hear about crossing the Mexico border, you immediately think about the illegal immigration between Mexico and the United States. But the problem of illegal immigration isn’t just happening on the border of the United States, it’s happening on Mexico’s other border.

Check out this eye-opening short documentary film and the sex trafficking that’s surrounding this problem: